Team USA’s Junior and Elite Men to Compete in Major International Action on Opposite Sides of the Globe

(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Team USA’s junior and elite men are currently training side-by-side in a final preparatory camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., but they will soon be separated by thousands of miles at two major international tournaments. The junior squad is preparing for the largest global event for their age group, the 2013 Junior Men’s World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine while their older counterparts are readying for the Men’s Continental Championships in Santiago, Chile, August 27-September 3.

Both teams will close the domestic training camp on Friday before departing for their respective international locales on Saturday. While the elite men will head directly to Chile for their event, the junior team will travel to Assisi, Italy for a 10-day European acclimation camp. The 13-athlete squad will arrive in Kiev on September 5 prior to opening tournament action on September 7 at the Kiev Palace of Sports.

USA Boxing, as the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing, is the United States’ member organization of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) and a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

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